Legion of BOOM

This is a set of images I have been waiting to see.  The big old Krios tank surrounded by some Thralls.

Lots of Dakka, that's for sure!

Also, a few more shots of the Krios, like this one where you can see that pilot tucked in there...

And some more dramatic angles.

Don't grind our gears!

That looks even bigger in this shot...

And the Thralls still look small :-)

Happy Boxing Day!

An old friend...

Here's an old buddy of mine.  This was the very first dreadnought that I scratch sculpted.  In fact, it was the first dreadnought I ever painted!

Ultimately, I ended up scratch building at least six.  I learned how to make the process go much more smoothly :-)  The latter versions were sculpted from extra firm sculpey, baked in pieces and then glued together afterward.

This was the original post, which shows how I made this first version, and some drawings for a future sculpt:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/03/scratch-sculpted-grey-knight.html

This was used in a number of games.  I remember using it in the warpgate scenario that we played out over 4 games, and the Defend the Factorum scenario which we also created.

So lots of fun with this guy.

And his own little buddies.

Something to warm your heart on Christmas!

Here's a look back at something from Rothand Studios.  A massive fire golem!

This guy is HUGE!  I think the base alone is nearly six inches across!

Here's part one of a painting guide I made while working on him:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/05/playing-with-fire-part-one-painting.html

And part two:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/05/painting-with-fire-golem-continues.html

Part Three, with a little help from Secret Weapon powders:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/05/painting-with-fire-golem-continues.html

I just had to see what this bad boy was gonna look like on the red backdrop, which I have not used very often.  I think I may have to employ this again when I start doing some more Dark Eldar sets!

Go check them out!

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2013/04/colossal-monsters-from-rothand-studios.html

I wish for you all the best of the Holidays... family, friends, alone, out of town, out of country, serving overseas... whatever your circumstances.  Take care, and enjoy!

Sit by the fire and stay a while!!!!

Playing in the snow...

I believe that these girls are from Privateer Press.

As with everything else, lots more of these are on the way.

Playing in the snow!  Which we don't have in Chicago... or in White Bear Lake MN, where we are now.

In any case, I hope that Santa brings you all what you desire this Christmas.  Like paint, minis, brushes... you know what I mean!!!!!!!!!!

Hitting the road for Christmas

I wouldn't mind having one of these to travel up north for the Holidays!  Not many folks would want to get in our way, that's for sure.

I hope that all of you have a great Holiday season.  Your visits here are much appreciated.  Hopefully I have been able to keep you entertained during 2014!

These figures collected a few awards in their day.  A Gold in Squad Category at Games Day, and a Rogue Demon Gold for Vehicle at Adepticon.  I believe it also won a Silver Crystal Brush.

The army as a whole won Best Painted in 2012 in the Adepticon Warhammer 40k Championships.

I think the relatively simple army board was very fun, and effective:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/04/grey-knights-army-board-for-adepticon.html

I loved painting all the freehand on the Land Raider, of course!  Who doesn't love freehand?

Here are some images from the tournament:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/04/adepticon-day-one-mission-accomplished.html

I added my original scratch sculpted Dreadnought for this image.  I learned a lot in sculpting that... the next 5-6 that I sculpted were MUCH easier. :-)

I will be doing a set of photos of that old Dreadnought coming soon, so Happy Holidays, and stay tuned!!!!!!!!!

We won't take any Bull

Here's another look back at my 2012 Civil War Dwarf team tournament army.

I made two units of Bull Centaurs, mostly scratch built.

I used plastic bull figures from a craft store, Ogre Kingdoms bits, and lots of Aproxy Sculpt!

Here's a post showing how they were constructed:

http://wappellious.blogspot.com/2012/03/adepticon-team-tournament-army-civil_21.html

You can probably tell from those images that I abandoned the Ogre banner for my own printed versions.  As with everything else in this army, I had to match what my partner had done with his army.

He had created a ton of printed banners for his Iron Brigade, so that meant I needed to mirror that.

It was still very fun!

These units were mostly for flavor... since what respectable Confederate army would not have JEB Stuart?

I am hoping to get back to these and do much more finishing detail on the figures.

In the meantime... the Wretched Alliance of Appomattox continues!

A thin blue line

Time for one of the bigger group shots of the horsies!

More are still to come...

But this gives you a little idea of what they look like together!

I want to try to make some movement trays for them (these are already magnetized), but I have never gotten any info on how they would be ranked up in a game.

I based them all individually so that it would be easier to paint them, and deal with them as a whole.

It's scary to see these pictures!

It's been a long time in the making...

Aside from my skeleton horses for the Tomb King army, this is by far the largest batch of horses I have ever done!

I painted eight horses for my Khandish chariots, but it still does not match this herd!

Wait until I add a dozen more to this mob!